Here’s an anecdata: Many of my high school teachers put me squarely in the “too far gone to help” camp, others put me in the “lazy and unmotivated” camp ... but

Here’s an anecdata: Many of my high school teachers put me squarely in the “too far gone to help” camp, others put me in the “lazy and unmotivated” camp ... but if I liked your class, if I respected you as a person, if you seemed like you knew what you were doing, then I became the “hot damn get out of their way this kid is a steamroller” kind. My English professor (2nd language) used to grade my essays with a dictionary because my vocabulary was so big, my coding professor said he can’t help but is happy to give me time and space to work on my opensource projects (for credit), my Slovenian professor (1st language) said it’s a shame I’m going to study CS because my essays are a joy to read and he always learns something new. But my chemistry professor? Straight F. German? D- It took me 5 years to finish high school and I had summer school every year except last. Because summer school senior year impacts when you can apply for college and I didn’t wanna risk that. And my grades at matura (kinda like the SAT) were higher than my high school GPA. Most of the time I was too busy coding all day and night to care about grades and I was definitely too cool for school.